The 25 Best Heist Movies on MGM+ (July 2026)

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The Train (1964)

IMDb 7.8 🍅 94% Letterboxd 4.1 2h 13m

Directed by John Frankenheimer

✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe Train's cat-and-mouse escalation between thief and pursuer transforms a simple art theft into existential warfare over cultural preservation.

As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He manages to secure a train to transport the valuable art works even as the chaos of retreat descends upon them. The French resistance however wants to stop them from stealing their national treasures but have received orders from London that they are not to be destroyed. The station master, Labiche, is tasked with scheduling the train and making it all happen smoothly but he is also part of a dwindling group of resistance fighters tasked with preventing the theft. He and others stage an elaborate ruse to keep the train from ever leaving French territory.

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The Count of Monte Cristo (2024)

IMDb 7.6 🍅 97% Letterboxd 4.1 2h 58m

Directed by Alexandre de La Patellière

✦ MovieMuse AI takeRevenge-heist structure inverts the genre: the con isn't stealing gold but reclaiming identity and justice through elaborate deception.

Edmond Dantès becomes the target of a sinister plot and is arrested on his wedding day for a crime he did not commit. After 14 years in the island prison of Château d’If, he manages a daring escape. Now rich beyond his dreams, he assumes the identity of the Count of Monte-Cristo and exacts his revenge on the three men who betrayed him.

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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)

IMDb 7.6 🍅 98% Letterboxd 4.1 1h 45m

Directed by Joseph Sargent

✦ MovieMuse AI takePelham's real-time subway heist thrives on the claustrophobic tension of planning an escape with nowhere to run.

In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?

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A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

IMDb 7.5 🍅 96% Letterboxd 3.7 1h 49m

Directed by Charles Crichton

✦ MovieMuse AI takeAnarchic charm meets intricate double-cross mechanics; the film weaponizes comedic timing as a heist tool.

While a diamond advocate attempts to steal a collection of diamonds, troubles arise when he realises he’s not the only one after the collection.

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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)

IMDb 7.5 🍅 69% Letterboxd 3.7 3h 12m

Directed by Stanley Kramer

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMad World's sprawling ensemble chase redefines heist cinema by making the target's location the obstacle rather than the prize.

A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.

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To Catch a Thief (1955)

IMDb 7.4 🍅 93% Letterboxd 3.7 1h 46m

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

✦ MovieMuse AI takeHitchcock's elegant cat-and-mouse duplicity: the thief must perform a heist to prove innocence, collapsing criminal and detective roles.

When a string of jewel robberies hits the French Riviera, suspicion falls on retired thief John “The Cat” Robie. To clear his name, he sets out to trap the copycat himself—entangling a wealthy widow and her beguiling daughter in a seductive game of pursuit, deception, and desire.

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Kansas City Confidential (1952)

IMDb 7.3 🍅 79% Letterboxd 3.7 1h 40m

Directed by Phil Karlson

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNoir inversion: the accused becomes investigator, unraveling the heist backward to expose the real architects hiding in plain sight.

An ex-convict sets out to uncover who framed him for an armored car robbery.

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House of Games (1987)

IMDb 7.2 🍅 93% Letterboxd 3.7 1h 42m

Directed by David Mamet

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMamet's con-game masterclass reveals the grifter's true talent—selling belief itself rather than executing the actual theft.

A psychiatrist comes to the aid of a compulsive gambler and is led by a smooth-talking grifter into the shadowy but compelling world of stings, scams, and con men.

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The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)

IMDb 6.9 🍅 69% Letterboxd 3.4 1h 53m

Directed by John McTiernan

✦ MovieMuse AI takeCrown's museum theft dazzles through pure aesthetic choreography—the heist as high-art performance piece captured in split-screen elegance.

Bored billionaire executive Thomas Crown entertains himself by stealing a Monet from a reputed museum with an elaborate diversion. When Catherine Banning, the insurance company's investigator, takes an interest in Crown, he may have met his match, and a complicated back-and-forth game with seductive undertones begins between them.

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The Lookout (2007)

IMDb 6.9 🍅 87% Letterboxd 3.3 1h 39m

Directed by Scott Frank

✦ MovieMuse AI takeLookout subverts the genre by making the mastermind's unreliable memory the actual heist's greatest vulnerability and moral core.

Chris is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he takes a job as a janitor at a bank, where he ultimately finds himself caught up in a planned heist.

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The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)

IMDb 6.9 🍅 70% Letterboxd 3.4 1h 42m

Directed by Norman Jewison

✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe original Crown seduces through sophistication: a gentleman thief who steals not from need but from the seductive thrill of intellectual challenge.

Young businessman Thomas Crown is bored and decides to plan a robbery and assigns a professional agent with the right information to the job. However, Crown is soon betrayed yet cannot blow his cover because he’s in love.

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The Fast and the Furious (2001)

IMDb 6.8 🍅 55% 1h 46m

Directed by Rob Cohen

✦ MovieMuse AI takeFast-and-furious street racing becomes the heist vehicle—car theft elevated through adrenaline, trust between criminals, and high-octane execution.

Dominic Toretto is a Los Angeles street racer suspected of masterminding a series of big-rig hijackings. When undercover cop Brian O'Conner infiltrates Toretto's iconoclastic crew, he falls for Toretto's sister and must choose a side: the gang or the LAPD.

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Fitzwilly (1967)

IMDb 6.7 Letterboxd 3.2 1h 42m

Directed by Delbert Mann

✦ MovieMuse AI takeFitzwilly ingeniously disguises servant-orchestrated robberies as charitable donations, making morality itself the perfect con.

When Miss Vicki's father dies, she becomes the world's greatest philanthropist. Unfortunately, she is flat broke! Her loyal butler, Claude Fitzwilliam, leads the household staff to rob from various businesses by charging goods to various wealthy people and misdirecting the shipments, all to keep Miss Vicki's standard of living.

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The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984)

IMDb 6.6 🍅 77% Letterboxd 3.4 2h 1m

Directed by Stuart Rosenberg

✦ MovieMuse AI takeGreenwich Village's brutal aftermath proves that successful theft means nothing without controlling what comes after.

Charlie and his troublesome cousin Paulie decide to steal $150000 in order to back a "sure thing" race horse that Paulie has inside information on. The aftermath of the robbery gets them into serious trouble with the local Mafia boss and the corrupt New York City police department.

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Bandits (2001)

IMDb 6.5 🍅 64% Letterboxd 3.1 2h 3m

Directed by Barry Levinson

✦ MovieMuse AI takeBandits' road-movie structure transforms the heist into character study—the con becomes secondary to the criminals' psychological unraveling.

After escaping from prison, Joe and Terry go on a crime spree, robbing banks through Oregon and California in order to finance their scheme for a new life south of the border. Unfortunately, things get more complicated when they meet Kate, who runs into them with her car. She joins the bandits on their cross-country spree, and eventually she steals something, too: their hearts.

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Beat the Devil (1953)

IMDb 6.4 🍅 68% Letterboxd 3.2 1h 35m

Directed by John Huston

✦ MovieMuse AI takeBeat the Devil commits fully to the con artist's greatest con: selling certainty on worthless promises.

A group of con artists stake their claim on a bogus uranium mine.

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Best Seller (1987)

IMDb 6.4 🍅 71% Letterboxd 3.2 1h 35m

Directed by John Flynn

✦ MovieMuse AI takeBest Seller collapses the heist and confession into one narrative—the real theft is truth extracted from a compromised source.

Hit man Cleve approaches writer/cop Dennis about a story for his next book: How Cleve made a living, working for one of the most powerful politicians in the country. To get the story right, they travel around the country to gather statements and evidence, while strong forces use any means they can to keep the story untold.

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After the Fox (1966)

IMDb 6.4 🍅 78% Letterboxd 3.3 1h 48m

Directed by Vittorio De Sica

✦ MovieMuse AI takeFox weaponizes cinema itself as cover, making the film production the perfect camouflage for the actual crime.

A criminal mastermind sets up a phony film production as part of a plan to smuggle stolen gold.

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Into the Blue (2005)

IMDb 5.9 🍅 20% Letterboxd 2.7 1h 50m

Directed by John Stockwell

✦ MovieMuse AI takeBlue anchors underwater heisting in genuine geographical mystery, where ocean pressure becomes the antagonist.

When they take some friends on an extreme sport adventure, the last thing Jared and Sam expect to see below the shark-infested waters is a legendary pirate ship rumored to contain millions of dollars in gold. But their good fortune is short-lived, as a ruthless gang of criminals gets word of what they have uncovered.

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F/X2 (1991)

IMDb 5.9 🍅 38% Letterboxd 3.0 1h 48m

Directed by Richard Franklin

✦ MovieMuse AI takeF/X2 makes special effects the methodology—illusion doesn't distract from the heist; it executes it.

F/X man Rollie Tyler is now a toymaker. Mike, the ex-husband of his girlfriend Kim, is a cop. He asks Rollie to help catch a killer. The operation goes well until some unknown man kills both the killer and Mike. Mike's boss, Silak says it was the killer who killed Mike but Rollie knows it wasn't. Obviously, Silak is involved with Mike's death, so he calls on Leo McCarthy, the cop from the last movie, who is now a P.I., for help and they discover it's not just Silak they have to worry about.

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Buster (1988)

IMDb 5.9 Letterboxd 2.9 1h 42m

Directed by David Green

✦ MovieMuse AI takeBuster captures the criminal's psychological trap: pull off the job, then live as a ghost unable to reclaim your own identity.

Buster is a small time crook who pulls a big time job. When he finds that the police will not let the case drop, he goes into hiding and can't contact his wife and child. He arranges to meet them in Mexico where he thinks they can begin again, but finds that he must choose between his family and freedom.

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American Buffalo (1996)

IMDb 5.8 🍅 69% Letterboxd 3.1 1h 28m

Directed by Michael Corrente

✦ MovieMuse AI takeBuffalo's three-man planning session proves the genre's greatest truth: preparation matters infinitely more than execution.

Three inner-city losers plan a robbery of a valuable coin in a seedy second-hand junk shop.

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Pocket Listing (2016)

IMDb 4.9 Letterboxd 3.0 1h 32m

Directed by Conor Allyn

✦ MovieMuse AI takePocket Listing weaponizes Los Angeles real estate's opacity as perfect heist machinery—value itself becomes negotiable.

A satirical thriller about L.A.'s real estate roller coaster. Double crosses, adultery, murder, mistaken identity, and revenge ensues when a mysterious power player and his sultry wife hire a disgraced Los Angeles property broker to discreetly market and sell their Malibu villa.

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Wild Geese II (1985)

IMDb 4.9 Letterboxd 2.9 2h 5m

Directed by Peter R. Hunt

✦ MovieMuse AI takeWild Geese II treats Spandau Prison as the ultimate locked puzzle, where the extraction demands military precision.

A group of mercenaries is hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin.

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Wildcat (2025)

IMDb 3.9 🍅 57% Letterboxd 2.2 1h 39m

Directed by James Nunn

✦ MovieMuse AI takeWildcat's personal stakes—saving the daughter—transform mercenary professionalism into desperate improvisation.

An ex-black ops team reunite to pull off a desperate heist in order to save the life of their leader’s eight-year-old daughter.

Best Heist Movies on MGM+